This study examines how the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) scholarships effectively target the poor while achieving its internal and external efficiency outcomes. It defined "poor" in two ways: (1) individuals with income below USD 3 per day, based on the World Bank...

This paper demonstrates that popular linear fixed-effects panel-data estimators are biased and inconsistent when applied in a discrete-time hazard setting - that is, one in which the outcome variable is a binary dummy indicating an absorbing state, even if the data-generating process is fully...